-Oxford - Wednesday: Part 42-
Ren really wanted to get the rest of this night over with. More so as he watched the two of the five of them raid his refrigerator. He realized the error of his choice of arrangements when he began to take in the space of his hotel room. It wasn't so much crowded fact one could add a rollaway bed in here with no real issues but there just wasn't the proper seating. 'I'll have to use the bed' he really didn't want anyone on his bed so he would just have to make that his place, while the couch was actually meant to sit only two people three could fit on it comfortably enough and with the two chairs at the little table that was suppose to be his dining room. It would work. 'Otherwise, I'll have to see if any of the rooms are free' but he couldn't really be sure how private those would remain if he went that route.
He began to turn the couch when Shizuru took the other end, he didn't actually need the help but he found himself grateful for it anyway, "Thanks" he muttered to the man who only nodded back in response. Ren went and grab the two dining chairs and set them in place by the time and then leaned against the table as he stared at the five of them.
Dasuku looked over to him from the so-called kitchen, "Think we can get a bit of room service sent up here?"
"Didn't you just get done having dinner?" Ren really didn't like being a host but he smiled as he looked at Dasuku, not that he expected the man to get the hint but what could he expect from these people?
"So? What does that have to do with anything that was like an hour ago man? I'm peckish again." He said looking at Kiyora, "Can you believe this guy?" Kiyora held up another bottle of liquor before putting it down as he shook his head.
Ren mentally sighed his smile never fading, "I can order something to be brought up. It's late so they won't do full meals. Snacks and things they'll do."
"That's good enough for me, just have them do one of those things with the chips, crackers, veggies, and dips. You know one of those fancy platter things." Dasuku "and maybe something other than water, coffee and well acholic would be nice too. Like I dunno soda?"
"Juice," Kiyora said simply, "might be better at this point, you know real juice not the crap with all the sugar, we have skin to look after." He ran his eyes down Ren's body, "but maybe we should try your idea" he said lifting up another bottle of liquor and wagging it some in his hand.
Ren could only shrug slightly. "I don't recommend it" then he moved to the little land phone and dialed room service he gave them a list of things, basically what they wanted and added milk and tea. He wasn't sure what Kyoko would want if anything and then he mentally groaned because he had a funny feeling he might be expected to eat more food. By the time he hung up, Reino had taken a seat on one side of the couch, with Mirkou sitting on the armrest and Dasuku sat on the couch with him. Kiyora was sitting in one of the chairs but that wasn't the biggest change, no the little coffee table had been moved he figured it had been done by Shizuru, 'Yeah, of course, food is coming we would need a place for it.'
Reino looked back at him, "You don't like us much much do you?"
"I don't know you, all I do know is that you drugged a young woman" he kept ahold of his anger that was threatening to come out, 'I'd feel a lot better punching in him the face' he grasped the wristwatch 'But I swore never to do that again didn't I Rick?'
"I did what I had to do, that guy..." Reino looked up towards the ceiling as Ren's eyes trailed over to the man he didn't need to ask, "She draws people to her it's part of her curse."
"We're drawn to her too you could say" Miroku looked down slightly at Reino, "Just not in the same way I guess. She's pretty plain looking." He looked up towards Ren, "and I'm not really talking about her looks so much as how she presents herself."
"No that's not it," Kiyora said smiling at Miroku before looking back towards Ren, "She just doesn't have the looks. I for one will never date anyone average looking. Well maybe if the status was right, but I would still hope she would get some work done."
Dasuku "You have problems man, she's not ugly," He said looking at his friends for a moment he felt like the air was getting heavy around him but Reino didn't seem bothered by it so he chalked it up to his imagination.
The older man of the group of five sat there in his chair looking at Dasuku, "She's cute" Shizuru said, "Like my sisters." Dasuku nodded his head rubbing the back of his skull as he did while Kiyora gave a slight shrug as if he could accept this fact.
Reino looked towards him slightly but said nothing. It seemed the aura that was coming from Ren died slightly thanks to Shizuru little comment. Yet if Shizuru marked her as that, it also meant that those two would never stand a chance at winning her hand should they ever desire to do so. He closed his eyes as Miroku shifted a little closer to him. He Could feel that the man was worried about him. Not that he could blame him, his hand moved towards his phone as he pulled it out to look at once again.
"Looking at it won't change it," Miroku said under his breath, Reino nodded his head slightly he knew he was right.
As for Ren, he was already at his limit, part of him was happy to know that none of these guys seemed to think of Kyoko as anything more than they did but at the same time he was bothered by the fact that they didn't seem to realize exactly how special she was. It reminded him too much of Shoutaro and what he did but there was one small difference he told himself Shizuru had said like my sisters. Not only that but the man had slapped the back of their heads so perhaps if nothing else he could trust Shizuru not to let the others get out of hand around her. More than that he wanted to know exactly what Reino had done to Kyoko and why she didn't seem bothered by them. The knock on the door pulled him out of his list of questions that were slowly building up upon themselves but he couldn't take his mind fully away from Kyoko.
'She's like a lamb going to slaughter' he thought as he went to answer the door. He cracked it open and looked down to see Kyoko. Minus the oversize white button-down shirt, the rest of her outfit or it was better to say pajamas had him mentally groaning to himself 'Or maybe I'm the lamb going to slaughter.' He leaned against the door frame "What are you wearing?" he really wanted to pull her inside but the fact remained there were five other men in this room and he was already having issues with those men around her and while they didn't find her apparently attractive he highly doubt they would be able to deny it if she came in like that.
"Well, I didn't want to have to change again after I was done here." She said looking down at herself for a moment. Kyoko didn't feel the same tightness that the dress had made her feel. It still hurt a lot but it wasn't like before. She had been correct in wearing something that allowed movement, "Besides there is nothing wrong with this."
Ren couldn't really deny that either if she was wearing this at Lory's house in the morning he would see nothing wrong with it. He opened the door a little wider but took her hand as he took her hand and shut the door behind her. "Be right back" he called out as he pulled Kyoko to his bathroom. She tried to pull away from him once she realized what was happening but he got her inside and shut the door behind him. "Need to fix this," he said picking her up and setting her on the sink of the bathroom.
"I'm not stripping" she didn't move other than to cross her arms around her stomach area.
Ren took a deep breath and sighed, "No I just want to make it a bit more fitting on the top." He said simply pulling out a sewing kit. She stared at him slightly dumbfounded "I don't have great skills." his eyes fell towards her chest for just a moment "Forgive me" he said simply as he began to undo the rose color bow. As he expected it wasn't a full ribbon just to sections of fabric that was meant to give the top an added cute factor. 'Cute... she's cute' the words echoed in his head and he realized why he had said it as he pinched the sides and pinned them. 'She's really petite' he paused as she slides the button down shirt off. "Thanks..." he the needlework wasn't that great but he was able to take it back a few before retying the so-called ribbon back around. It helped define her a bit more and that bothered him too. Yet if she bent over, there shouldn't be a show. 'I can hope' he mentally thought.
"Are you happy now?" Ren's eyes jotted up towards her for a moment, he realized then that she hadn't blushed once. He also hadn't been bothered by her presence until after he had been done.
"It's good enough." He said helping her put the button-down shirt "This, on the other hand, is really not your size."
Kyoko frowned slightly as she lifted her arms, "It's Daddy's so don't think about trying to adjust it"
"While we are here..." His eyes trailed towards her side.
"I'm not showing you. Until you get permission from Daddy." He mentally sighed as he helped her down, there was really no point in pushing it he supposed seeing as Lory would likely be told if he attempted. As she opened the door she gasped and Ren's eyes narrowed as Shizuru was standing right there, clearly having been waiting.
Shizuru eyes darted once toward Ren 'don't freak' was all his eyes told the older man before he knelt down and began to prod the right side of Kyoko. The moment she realized what was about to happen she held her hand out, it was enough Ren didn't move forward even as she winced from the action. The area itself was not sore from his actions though, not that it felt good. Shizuru nodded his head. "Is it discolored?" His eyes moved from hers to Ren's who aura had changed, it wasn't exactly dark but it wasn't exactly warm and welcoming either.
Kyoko, "No" well it wasn't really a lie, the bruises were from something else completely.
Shizuru eyes narrowed slightly before he stood up, "Without a closer look." He looked back towards Ren as he spoke, clearly waiting for the man to attack him but Kyoko remained firmly between them as if she too could sense the aura around her. "Seen it a lot with my sisters, so I'm pretty sure it's just a pulled a muscle. I don't think it's bruised or fractured." His eyes turned towards Kyoko's, "Ice pack for 20-30 minutes a few times a day for the next couple of days. Massaging can help but it will hurt." She nodded her head as his eyes darted back towards Ren's he stepped away from him as Kyoko turned towards him.
"Well you heard him" she took his hand and he looked down. 'He really might hurt him' she looked at the way the room was set up before realizing that she would have to sit on the bed with the man. 'Well, that might be for the best at this point' she mentally cringed at how that was the best course of action. Her eyes turned towards him for a moment taking his hand and leading him towards the bed. 'This is wrong, so wrong in so many ways' she really wanted to just run away but she was pretty sure people would end up in the hospital.
Reino's eyes followed the tall man, 'He's dangerous, really dangerous' he didn't like the idea when Shizuru had come up with it but the man wanted to be sure before anything else was done. 'I don't think I could stop him' actually he was sure he couldn't. Yet as he watched Ren he noticed that the only one who seemed to have any control over him was Kyoko herself. As if her contact was all that was keeping him from killing them all, not that his aura wasn't trying to do the job for him. As he sat down on the edge of the bed Kyoko sat next to him to the left, between him and where Shizuru had placed himself.
Kyoko took his other hand and wrapped it around her, pressing his hand against her side. His eyes turned towards her, "You're the ice pack" It wasn't exactly enough she knew that but his hands felt a lot colder than when she was wearing the dress and she couldn't help but sigh softly as she felt herself relax into him. She opened her eyes slightly, "So... tell me what exactly in the stuff you used that made the pain go away."
Reino smiled some thought he didn't feel like smiling at all, he was too worried. "First why don't you tell me what you were thinking when you were around that guy, Ling."
Daiki ran a hand through his hair as he turned from his computer screen, again the little button in the corner was flashing. He wouldn't have bothered to even have hacked into her phone if he hadn't gotten that call from Leiko. He closed his eyes she had told him she was worried. That her child would need help but help didn't mean stopping her. That had bothered him, but Leiko had told him that the girl had a war, and this was just one of the many battles she had to face. It was her job to assure that she had the resources to come out alive. Daiki couldn't deny that but he really didn't like being seen as a resource to the old woman. 'Crafty little witch' he thought as he stared at the flashing button in the corner of his screen.
Truth be told he didn't like any of it. Not that Kyoko had taken it upon herself, not the fact that he was meant to be seen out of the loop, and most of all not that she was with Kuon. He was half tempted to hack his phone but he didn't want to even think what he would find on that man's phone 'Besides Kyoko's shown no sign whatsoever that she has any feelings for him' he thought as his eyes turned towards his brother who was reading on the bed. 'If she did, I'm sure he would have said something' it was unnatural how quickly every one of them has come to care about Kyoko in a way. Daiki wondered slightly if they had been drugged somehow but no matter how he thought about it drugs faded would require redosing and it didn't seem to matter when it came down to it. 'Well unless we are being drugged by the Queen's men' he wouldn't put it past her mother but Mary she didn't have the same bite as her mother did. Yet he highly doubted that too for some reason it didn't explain Leiko's affection for the girl.
Turning one of his laptop's camera on that faced his brother he fed it to his computer with the little flashing tab and opened it. He didn't spend too long looking at them, but he knew right away that someone had been in the Takarada room. Red lipstick, a shade he could see Laura wearing perhaps but not Kyoko who didn't seem to wear makeup at all. So that meant it was brought into the room from the outside. That would give him something to work with. His eyes darted towards the video feed before he looked at who she sent the message too. Her father and Ruto would have been a given, but he was pleased that she had thought to send it to General Brown as well. The only issue he had with that was that he couldn't get into their personal database, that was off limits to him which meant he wouldn't be able to gather any of that information unless it was sent to Kyoko by phone. Which he doubted he ran a hand behind his neck. 'I could just hack their phones' Ruto's phone would be the most logical one but Lory would likely be sent information regarding his daughter. 'Can't do that without the old hag's permission though' he closed the tab down.
Daiki shut down the camera fed as he turned towards another computer, "Have you heard from Kyoko yet?"
Keiji didn't bother to even look towards his brother, "No. Why?" Daiki could tell that his younger brother didn't actually care for the reason but had asked simply because Daiki had questioned him in the first place.
"Seems a bit late is all. I mean you were babysitting him for a reason weren't you?" He had turned in his chair as he spoke watching his brother on the bed. He could see that he was having a mental battle with himself. While Daiki doubted that Keiji knew exactly how dangerous Kuon could be. How he had gotten into fights, slept around, and Daiki honestly wouldn't have been surprised to find out he had done drugs while out partying with his so-called friends. He also knew people didn't tend to ask a 16-year-old male to watch a 19-year-old man without good reason. More so not when it came from Lory. Daiki knew that it would only take one more push for him to contact the girl, "I mean a guy with a face and body like that. I wouldn't be surprised if he took her to his room, she's too innocent and pure even with all the shit she's been through, pretty unaware of what she can do." He turned back around to his computer "But if you don't think there is a problem I won't worry."
Daiki didn't need to turn around, he heard Keiji put his book down and he could only assume he was texting her on his phone when he heard a buzz in reply and the heavy sigh of a man who hated his life coming from him. "I hate when you are right." He muttered as he shifted from the bed.
"So you are going to go get her then?" He said typing out the code to his game seeing as right now that was all he could do.
"Unless you want to do the honors." It wasn't really a question because they both knew that he wouldn't be leaving his computer screen. The difference was Keiji just assumed it was because he was coding his game as he did every night. Where Daiki need some time alone to look at the images and try and figure out who had entered her room while everyone was away.
"No. I'm busy."
Keiji patted him on the shoulder as he grabbed his jacket "You really should focus outside of that computer world a bit more."
Daiki eyes lifted some as he looked at his brother, "Maybe but there is much to be gained from sitting here." He gave a faint smile towards his brother and the man nodded. Daiki turned his eyes back to his computer screen and waited until he heard the front door of their hotel room close before turning away from what he was doing. He wasn't sure how much time he would have before his brother came back. Likely with Kyoko in tow.